The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 31, 1928, Page 3

’ : s "THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1928 Page Three _—_—_———, FOREIGN NEWS -- CUBAN OFFICIAL — ADMITS MACHADO KILLED WORKERS Pan A. F. of L. Report! Carefully Censored | The official report of the Pan- American Federation of Labor made public several days ago while sup-| pressing’an interesting series of les-| ters from the Argentine delegation | against police vision over cthe| character of their delegation contains | a virtual admission by the Cuban’ am- bassador to the United States, that sup- the Machado regime brutally pressed the railroad strike in 19 “protect United. States intere While the report contains, for stance, a number of irrelevant letters between President Green of the A. F. of L. and patriotic socie‘ies of Peru and the American State Department regarding the Tacna-Arica dispute; it omits entirely, however. the corre- spondence between Iglesias, Secretary of the Pan American Federation of Labor, and the Argentine Labor or-, ganizations, in which the latter ex-; plained their refusal to participate in! the Congress because the invitations} had been transmitted through the! Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which in| turn delivered them to the Ministry| of the Interior (the police) with whose! approval the delegates to this extra~ ordinary congress were to be ap- pointed. The report publishes an. interesting correspondence between Green and Orestes Ferrara, the Cuban Ambas- sador in Washington. Green wrote to Ferrara regarding the persecution of labor in Cuba and enclosed a report. on the brutalities and oppressions of the Machado government. Green as- sured the Cuban ambassador that he was “reluctant to give credence to} this information:” Green Suppresses Facts. The memorandum, however, is not published in the report. Instead, there is published a long letter from Ferrara attempting to justify the Cuban Government. Thus the case of the workers against the Cuban government is conveniently suppressed by Green, while the government’s de- fense is published in full. In reply to the long list of Cuban labor leaders who have been assassin- ated, or have mysteriously disap- peared, enumerated in Green’s sup- yeession memorandum, the Cuban ambassador replies: “Almost all the names aré of strangers who have abandoned vol- untarily or by force the territory of the republic. Almost all of these strangers have been banished from other countries, arriving in Cuba to initiate a social revolution. I beg of you to read the information given by Secretary Kellogg to the Senate of the United States on the Nicaraguan affair.” (Kellogg’s famous memoran- dum on Bolshevist activities in Cen- tral America.) Ferrara continues: “There is no doubt that there are several dead resulting from. violent fights and there are also several dead | who were mysteriously killed, as also} happens in these great conflicts in| Varona (the rural communities. . . . socialist leader of the railroad work- ers) was assassinated also.” Wall Street Hand. The Cuban Ambassador explains that the threat of American inter- vention compeiled it to suppress the strikes of workers against the foreign capitalists. Ferrara writes: “It is absolutely true that there was in Cuba a strike of railroad work- ers in 1926; that this strike lasted many days and that the government which had viewed it with sympathy because it considered that the work- men had some right . . . was obliged to commit acts of suppression on ac- count of the continuances of personal offenses, dynamiting machines, dam- ages to property, explosion of bombs, ate.” The strike, Ferrara says, assumed a revolutionary character, “with the object of forming a revolition in Cuba, the beginning of a more ex- tensive revolution in the American continent.” “In this strike,” Ferrara explains, “many citizens of the United tates, high employees of the Sugar Com- panies, were threatened with death by the revolutionary element, and it was with difficulty that they escaped’ the victims. You who’ know the theory sustained (by Coolidge), and actually used, that a government should de- fend, although in a foreign land, the life and property of its citizens by. the sending of troops... will com- prehend with what perplexity our ad- ministration was seeing the course which events were taking.” , So the Cuban government con- veniently uses the threat of Ameéri- can intervention to excuse its ruthless suppression of a strike. Fascist Crown Prince Tours Italian Empire ROME, Jan Humbert, who is making a Mediter- tanean cruise’ upon ah Italian ware ship as an “unofficial ambassador of Italian good-will,” is due at’ Cairo, Ravn, on Wednesday to visit King et 3 Negro Delegation Visits “USSR. Candy Factory 30.—Crown: Prince: Wall Street Puppet Pio Romero, president of Sal- vador, who ordered Salvador news- papers to “play down” Nicaraguan news. Romero’s order was made at the request of the United States Ambassador to Salvador. NICARAGUA NEWS, U.S: Envoy to Salvador Asks Exile of Liberal SAN SALVADOR, (By Mail).— The American Minister to Salvador recently informed the Department of Foreign Relations that he would be pleased if the government would take steps to punish all newspapers which publish news in large headlines of the Nicaraguan rebel General August Sandino. Several newspaper men admit that intimations have already come from the government to the effect that statements regarding Sandino should be moderated. The Nicaraguan Inde- pendence Committee placed a com- munication in the hands of Lindbergh, immediately after his arrival here, which congratulated the aviator om his exploit, but declared that he was be- |ing made a tool of American imperial - ism: The American minister there- upon suggested to the Salvadorian government that Dr. Zamorra, presi- dent of the committee, should be de- ported. Wall Street Gets Big Chile Phone Contract The International Telegraph and Telephone Company of New York (the foreign branch of the American telephone monopoly) has undertaken the reconstruetion of the entire tele- phone system of Chile. It will also develop long distance service to the other countries of Latin America, the United States and Europe. A large quantity of material has already been ordered in the United States for the above development. PROTEST FORCES! BLACK SHIRTS TO HALT WAGE SLASH Maritime Workers War! on Fascist Edict GENEVA, Jan. The protest of Italian marine workers has forced a fascist labor court to hand down a decision stopping the wage cut which was to have become effective in the wages of the men. The case is the \first involving the new scale of wages tried in a National Labor Court and is believed to reveal the ex- treme uneasine! ith which the fas- cists regard the stability of their dic- tatorship. Two months ago the owners gave notice that they intended to slash men’s wages twenty-five per cent. The proposed cut followed close upon the heels of a ten per cent cut. The men refused to accept the cut, and the case was referred to the National Labor Courts which allowed it to drag jalong for a month before reaching a decision. The decision handed down yester- day decrees that henceforward all contracts will be for the duration of six months only. The maritime workers are elated over their present triumph and are determined to use the precedent in forcing further concessions from the blackshirts. At the same time, it is frankly stated by some leaders that the fascists may exact reprisals in Kills Admiral Horthy, head of the Hungarian Fascist regime, which recently passed a law automatically sentencing members of the Hung- arian Communist Party to life im- prisonment. WILBUR BATTLES PROBE OF SAMOA Native Unrest Against Navy Rule Grows WASHINGTON, (By Mail).—See- retary of the Navy Wilbur is opposed to a civil govern- the hear future, and are only biding enough to strike at the maritime dollays a month. HUNDREDS RIT OVERPRAYERBOOK DARWEN, England, Jan. 30— Coincident with their rejection of the revised prayer book, as approved by the House of Commons, several hun- dred persons took part in recent demonstrations in St. Cuthbert’s Chureh. The congregation broke up ) the service Sunday and the Vicar, | Rev. B. F. Lauria, called in the police. Several names were taken, but no ar- rests were made. The new prayer book was an at- tempt to bring about the reunion of the Catholic and the ‘Anglican churches to which the people have strenuously objected. LONDON, Jan. 30.—Earl Douglas Haig, one of Britain’s outstanding military commanders, is dead. -Haig’s death occurred last night, but news of it was not made public until early today. By R. FARMAR. MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., (By Mail).— |'Today we paid a visit to a Soviet ‘candy factory. After going to the foreman and presenting our creden- tials, we were escorted by the fore- man through the factory. No part of the factory and its operations’ were overlooked. From the big sleds’ haul- ed by the excellent Russian. horses, bringing in the raw materials to the | shipping department where the fin- ished product was ready to go on the market, our guide, a courteous | big young Russian, was ever ready lo answer questions and show the op- erations of the work. cs Great Interest. _ First we entered the primary mix- ing departments where all the heavy work was done by men and machin- ery. The cleanliness of the men and the well-kept. mixing pots were ob- jects of great attraction. Also the numerous new and modern machines were a part of the things we could not overlook. We then went to another depart- ;ment w benches where they were kneaded and rolled by many workers, The long line of workers in their white caps, white dresses and white shoes getting the candy ready for the cutting ma- chines, pulling and rolling and khéad- ‘ing their big flexible masses of stuff, reminded one of a gigantic Hallo~ we’en taffy-pulling party. When the candy was sufficiently worked it was and cut it in pieces about a half-inch thick and one and a half inches long. Modern Machinery. In the reign of the czar the candy was cut by workers with scissors. |Now the output is forty times as great and the workers are not driven ; as they once were. The cut pieces’ are caught in large baskets where they are carried into the wrapping depart- ;ment, This place where the candy is put into’ coats of many-colored paper is a pleasing sight. Four hundred and ‘eighty smiling, singing, laughing girls are at work in their white suits doing this dainty igh. But we notice || f here the cooked sugars, choco- | lates and syrups were carried to long | | put into a machine that stretched it || the job is their's. At once groups of them surround us asking various questions, giving salutations and fill- ing our pockets with candy. A couple of them hasten and get pitchers of tea and glasses and we find ourselves sitting beside them drinking tea and eating candy, arid we forget our color until one of the group asks where in the UnitedeStates would the Negro receive such hospitality, the United States with its poisonous prejudices ind slave-driving tactics engendered y the capitalistic class. Workers Literate. After a pleasant half hour we leave these happy workers to go to the crating and shipping departments and then to take our departure. On leav- ing the factory the guide informs us that when the Soviets took over the factory over eighty per cent of the workers were illiterate. Now they all read and write, some speaking more than one language. 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The natives are protesting against a poll tax of three dollars levied\6n évery person who is over five feet in height. The newly appointed naval gover- journal devoted to the card-game “whist” announcing that he hoped to improve the technique of white-play- ipg among the American residents of Samoa. sooo HORTHY FASCISTS! DEMAND ALLIANCE TO WAR ON USSR | upper group to investigate ) time, Ask Death Sentence for | All Communists VIENNA, Jan. ven a death sentence is mild for Communist agi 30.— ie inent m n the debate | tators,” declared a y n= ber of the upper ho on the bill meting out life imprison- ment to all members of the Commun- mediate war against the Soviet Union, was urged by another member of the ist Party. The bill became a law Fri- day after a debate lasting twelve days. That the great European powers should form an alliance for an im-| | \ house, whose name is not men-* tioned in despatches received here. | Grand Duke Joseph Hapsburg, al member of the upper house eongratu-| lated the speakers for their anti-Sov- | iet speechess The new law is gener- | ally regarded as an answer of the | Hungarian fascists to the effort of} the Hungarian Communists to make their Party a legal one. Uruguay Unions Sells British Empire Lloyd Georgé, Who is attempting to “sell” the British empire to Latin-America. He recently visited Rio de Janeiro and urged Brazil to join the League of Nations. Part of the British “good-will” program was the official visit of the officers of the British cruiser “Capetown” to the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs. ARGENTINA MAY BAR U, S. G00DS iProtest Against High Tariff Rates BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 30. Send Delegate to Red | threat to take strong retaliatory | | measures, leading to a complete ex- | Intl Labor Congress clusion of American goods from Ar-' MONTEVIDEO, Jan. 30. — The “Union Sindical Uruguaya,” repre- senting a large number of trade unions in Uruguay, will send a dele- gate to the Fourth Congress of the com-|Red International of Labor Unions which will open at Moscow in March. The Union is und yndicalist and Communist leadership. For a long the ndicalist ele- ments opposed tion with the R. I. L. U. Recently, however, a num- ber of Latin-Americans, who returned from a visit to the Soviet Union, praised the workers and peasants government. Spanish Leader Lauds Workers’ Govt. of USSR Rodrigo Soriano, one of the ‘leaders of the Republican Party of Spain, re- cently returned from the Soviet Union and made a tour of some of the Latin | American countries. In a series of nor of Samoa recently wrote to &\jectures at Montevideo he praised the conditions of the workers and pea- sants in the Soviet Union and the ac- complishments of the Soviet Govern- ment. All of his speeches were pub- lished in “Justicia” the Communist newspaper of Montevideo. Political conditions make it impos- In India Train Wreck! death list in the passenger train’ wreck between this city and, Mandalay on Saturday reached 54 today. Of the 30 injured, it is feared many | will die. No foreigners were among the victims. Investigators beiieve train wreckers were responsible. Great Assortment of All Makes of Typewriters. Portables, New and Re- built. All Guaranteed. Moderate Prices. For Sale, Rental and Repairs. Open: 10 A.M. to 9 P.M. International Typewriter Co. 1643 2nd Avenue. Bet. 85-86th. NEW YORK CITY. subscribe to the DAILY WORKER Read a Fighting Paper. 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Duhau further favors the j cancellation of commercial treaties | with governments which refuse to) | treat with the Argentine on a re-/ | ciprocal basis. | | COSTES IN MEXICO CITY. ' MEXICO CITY, Jan. 30. — The} French trans-Atlantic aviators Dieu- | donne Costes and Joseph Lebrix, who | flew from Guatemala City to Mexico City yesterday, were received at the | National Palace at noon today by / President Calles who congratulated | them upon their exploits - BY CABLE AND MAIL FROM SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS NAIL NEW LIES ~ ABOUT COUNTER REVOLT IN USSR Fake Rumors Spread by Riga and London 30.—Reports cir- and Berlin en out here and mlfh has been bombarded with a hing is known |} y or un revolt led by Gen, * et Union y denied giments of exiled Leon report troops ré the Trotsky, n Moscow and bombarded the K MEE ae BERLIN, Jan. 30.—The Soviet Union embassy today issued an offi- cial denial of repor that an anti- out at Mos- Leon Trot- Button | i | Aj Every militant worker, every Com- munist, should get his fellow-worker to wear this button! The price button. Over 2! Party up to 25—10c per Te per button. organizations should order thru their district organizers. 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